About Samuel Stupp
Samuel Stupp is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. He also directs Northwestern’s Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology and the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, an Energy Frontiers Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. He has been a pioneer in the development of self-assembling supramolecular materials and his research is currently focused on functionality relating to renewable energy, regenerative medicine, and soft matter for robotics. Materials of interest to him include supramolecular polymers, organic/inorganic hybrid materials, biomolecular structures, and soft electronic materials.
Stupp is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Spanish Academy, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences
of Costa Rica, and the National Academy of Inventors. His awards include the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal, the Nanoscience Prize of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering, the Department of Energy Prize
for Outstanding Achievement in Materials Chemistry, the International Award from The Society of Polymer Science in Japan, the Royal Society Award in Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry, and three awards from the American Chemical Society: Polymer
Chemistry, the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry, and the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry. He has received honorary degrees from Eindhoven Technical University, Gothenburg University, and the National University
of Costa Rica, as well as distinguished professorships from Hong Kong University, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (Severo Ochoa Professor), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Eindhoven Technical University, and Ecole de Physique
et de Chimie in Paris.